SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

[Edbert]

Zona - SA35/251 Zona 35-251 Ultra... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000BREQKC?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Looking forward to the reports.

I have a cheap miterbox too. It works, call it average, would never call it precision, figure I can get 40-60 cuts before it is ruined. This is the one I have...

https://micromark.com/products/the-dobson-miter-rite

 

[BarleyBop]

cheap miterbox

Ooh! fancy pants!

 

[Edbert]

Ooh! fancy pants!

Nah, it wobbles all over the place, and leaves plastic shavings among the wood. A bad thing when cutting wood :-(

However, far FAR better than eyeballing it, or using my DeWalt miter-chop saw.

 

[Edbert]

This came in today...

The one on the right there, just did a clear on the chromate and silver for the F-102 today, that is the one on the left.

The 101 finishes my stash-collection of the century-series. The bad news, many of the kits are 20+ years old, or 30. Then the 101 arrives from the company who went bankrupt and are famous for crappy fit. Oh well. You want retro collections that are out of the fad, you take what you can get.

 

[Tommergun]

This came in today...

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The one on the right there, just did a clear on the chromate and silver for the F-102 today, that is the one on the left.

The 101 finishes my stash-collection of the century-series. The bad news, many of the kits are 20+ years old, or 30. Then the 101 arrives from the company who went bankrupt and are famous for crappy fit. Oh well. You want retro collections that are out of the fad, you take what you can get.

Niiiiiice!

 

[Edbert]

Not my artwork, apologies if you've seen it already...

 

[BarleyBop]

Woo hoo!

Hobby Market came through!

Came across this vendor/distributor in Germany Greece when crawling through the webs looking for WW2 Italian vehicles.
Ordered a Pavesi Artillery Tractor (which I posted here a while back). Unfortunately, when I opened the box marked 1:35, it was clearly mis-packaged with 1/72 kit parts...

I went back to Hobby Market to be sure I had ordered the right thing, and clicked on the Text Help, and someone answered immediately!
I posted a pic of the contents beside a ruler, and the gentleman assured me that they would contact the seller right away, not to worry, he would take care of it.
Ya, right! As if?!

Well, got home just now from my favourite LHS (where I traded an Otter... not used in North Africa) for some other stuff... and what was waiting in my mailbox?
And the right scale!

From my LHS, to add to African French stash along with a good read and some vintage looking palm trees:

 

[sapper23]

That p4 tractor is awesome!

 

[BarleyBop]

That p4 tractor is awesome!

Haha, somebody we know gets to splatter fer sure with this one!

 

[Pantherman]

Not my artwork, apologies if you've seen it already...
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I like this one. Pantherman

 

[BarleyBop]

My my,

For carving stuff that XActo can't handle.

 

[Pantherman]

My my,

For carving stuff that XActo can't handle.

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Nice. Pantherman

 

[Jakko]

Hobby Market came through!

Came across this vendor/distributor in Germany

Greece

 

[BarleyBop]

Greece

Wow, better brush up on my URL extensions!

I should rephrase it then, "service with promptness and accuracy of german engineering!

 

[Jakko]

I figured that's where the mistake came from Germany is .de for Deutschland, but oddly, Greece is not (say) .he for Hellas, Hellada or similar.

 

[BarleyBop]

Not exactly new, but got new blades today for it.
For those of us who might hold a knife like a pen sometimes, here is an ergonomic variation...

Holds it pretty steady for scoring especially...

 

[Tommergun]

Just found this at my local Half Price Books. Nice add to the stash.

 

[BarleyBop]

Nice add

Cool! I did a double-take figuring which end was which!

 

[BarleyBop]

Hmmm.
I have been spoiled by my single blade side cutter. Only it is right handed, so only useful half as much as it could be.
By allowing a cut flush against a part, these single sided tools reduce the time to remove parts from sprues by more than half, because of the minimal to zero sanding required. Of course, the double bladed variety is still needed for attachment points in the middle of a part, or a rounded edge.

Meet left-handed brother!

And some more rigid carbon fibre sanding sticks. Now I can have a variety of grits on the different shaped sticks. I find these are the perfect complement to the flexible GodHand sanding foam.

 

[Pantherman]

Time to Buzz the stash boy's. PM

 

[TimM63]

Time to Buzz the stash boy's. PM

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Nice

 

[Tommergun]

This just arrived. Might build as an A-37 or convert it to a T-37 which was one of the aircraft I worked on in the AF.

 

[BarleyBop]

This just arrived. Might build as an A-37 or convert it to a T-37 which was one of the aircraft I worked on in the AF.

Nice! Your familiarity with it should make for an interesting build!

 

[TimM63]

Today's arrival

 

[Pantherman]

Today's arrival

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Cool. PM

 

[TimM63]

Stopped at an estate sale and found these.
$60 for the bunch.

 

[BarleyBop]

these

Beaufort! Score!

 

[Jakko]

The newest Tamiya kit, plus figures, decals and paint for it — all will become clear eventually The bottle of Tamiya cement is for the track pins on Cuckoo, because all of the glue I had is too thin and creeps between them, so I decided to buy a thicker type. The little camouflaged box is a set of British 4-gallon fuel cans from Panzer Art.

 

[BarleyBop]

So my roofer just left after replacing aluminum fascia that got ripped off the attic gable in last night's wind storm... and there in the mailbox, was perhaps the last installment in my Italian affair!

... a 3Dprinted kit, with 3 figures!

And to top it all off, I have found photographic evidence of it in use in East Africa.

 

[TimM63]

Today's arrival